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Syria: Syrians run across the Lebanese border to purchase weapons
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As the Syrian uprisings escalate in violence, Lebanon's black market in arms is flourishing, with prices of light and medium weapons driven higher by Lebanese and Syrian demand.
"Prices have tripled in less than two months," says Wael, a local arms dealer, whose name has been changed to protect his identity.
According to local dealers, Syrians have been crossing the borders into neighbouring Lebanon to purchase weapons since late January, when the country erupted with pro-democracy protests which were subject to bloody government crackdown. |
MI: Detroit cop's firing clouded by his history of shootings
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It was a time card -- not gunplay -- that did in Eugene Brown.
The 44-year-old Detroit police sergeant has been a stone in the shoe of the department since 2000, when a Free Press series spotlighted his extraordinary record of nine shootings -- three of them fatal -- in just six years. The shootings cost the city millions of dollars in lawsuits and helped push the Police Department into federal oversight. |
IN: Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into home
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This is the second major Indiana Supreme Court ruling this week involving police entry into a home.
On Tuesday, the court said police serving a warrant may enter a home without knocking if officers decide circumstances justify it. Prior to that ruling, police serving a warrant would have to obtain a judge's permission to enter without knocking.
Submitter's note: Indiana state court gives law enforcement carte blance in entering your home! |
TX: Fort Worth Fires Police Sergeant
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A Texas police sergeant accused of frequently working fewer hours than his time sheets showed has been fired.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that John C. Ost appealed his Tuesday termination on Friday.
Ost was a 21-year veteran of the department. An investigation targeted him and three other jail sergeants.
Officials say one of those officers avoided discipline by resigning while another took a voluntary demotion.
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IN: Indiana High Court Says No Right to Resist Illegal Police Entry
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The Indiana Supreme Court ruled Friday that state residents have no right to resist an illegal police entry, overturning a Common Law that dates back to the English Magna Carta of 1215.
Writing for the court's 3-2 majority, Justice Steven David said if a police officer wanted to enter a home for any reason - or for no reason - homeowners could do nothing to block the officer's entry.
"We believe ... a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence," David wrote, according to the Northwest Indiana Times.
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NY: Two NYPD cops with history of hooker trouble being eyed in LI killings
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Two NYPD cops are being eyed in the Long Island serial slayings after investigators learned they got into trouble for hiring prostitutes while working for the department, according to sources familiar with the probe.
One cop was forced out of the job in the 1990s when his supervisors learned he spent time pursuing hookers and paying street walkers and down-and-out women for sex while he was supposed to be on patrol.
An internal investigation led to his resigning under pressure, one source said.
The other officer still works for the NYPD but was stripped of his gun and badge years ago because he allegedly assaulted a prostitute and got arrested during a sting operation.
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WI: Law enforcement against open carry legislation
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Walworth County Sheriff David Graves expressed concern about how a concealed carry law would be implemented.
“We know it’s going to happen,” Graves said. “We just want to make it safe and workable to everybody.”
Carrying concealed weapons would be legalized under bills pending in the state Legislature. Wisconsin and Illinois are the only states that don't allow concealed carry. None of the bills would require training for carriers.
“My primary concern is for the safety of the officers in the field and the citizens they encounter,” Moore said. “From a police perspective, I would like the only people out in the public with guns to be trained police officers.”
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AL: Proactive measures needed to help curb gun violence
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If you think all of those gun regulations don't matter, you're wrong.
Five of the top six states on the Brady Campaign's ranking of the states with best gun control laws also have the lowest gun deaths, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those same stats show Alabama and the other low scorers on the Brady test rank at the top of the list for gun deaths. Alabama has been as high as No. 2 on that list in the last five years, and always around the top six. |
IL: Illinois sued over gun carry ban
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As Wisconsin lawmakers consider allowing residents to carry concealed weapons, the only other state that currently prohibits the practice, and recently rejected a bill to allow it, now faces a federal lawsuit over its ban.
The Bellevue, Washington-based Second Amendment Foundation and two Illinois residents last week asked a federal court to declare Illinois’s ban on both concealed and open carry of firearms for protection to be unconstitutional.
The individual plaintiffs are Michael Moore, a 60-year-old Champaign grandfather of four and a jail superintendant, and Charles Hooks, a 62-year-old farmer from Percy. Each has a valid Firearm Owners Identification Card, a requirement for gun owners in Illinois. |
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